Paper Info
Title
Impact of Content Delivery Networks on Service and Content Innovation
Abstract
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are major actors of the current telecommunication ecosystem. Our goal in this paper is to study their impact on other actors of the supply chain, especially on content innovation which is a key concern in the network neutrality debate where CDNs' role seems forgotten. Our findings indicate that vertically integrating a CDN helps Internet Service Providers (ISPs) collect fees from Content Providers (CPs), hence circumventing the interdiction of side payments coming from netneutrality rules. However, this outcome is socially much better in terms of user quality and innovation fostering than having separate actors providing the access and CDN services: in the latter case double marginalization (both ISP and CDN trying to get some value from the supply chain) leads to suboptimal investments in CDN storage capacities and higher prices for CPs, resulting in reduced innovation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2847220.2847236
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
43
3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patrick Maillé128243.33
Bruno Tuffin278987.60